Teppo Felin Professor | Univ of Oxford Director | Oxford Diploma in Strategy & Innovation  twitter @teppofelin RESEARCH INTERESTS strategy organizations value(s) perception rationality cognition startups institutions markets  INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS  Photo taken in Copenhagen, 2010 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2013 - Present Professor of Strategy University of Oxford 2010 - 2013 Associate Professor & Lee Perry Fellow Marriott School, BYU 2005 - 2010 Assistant Professor Marriott School, BYU 2004 - 2005 Visiting Professor Emory University Visiting appointments at Hanken School of Economics, Aalto University and Lund University EDITORIAL ACTIVITY ` Academy of Management Review, Editorial Board [2011-present] ` Academy of Managem ent Annals, Associate Editor [2016-2019] ` Academy of Management Perspectives, E ditorial Board [2016-present] ` Co-edited special issues of Organization Science, Managerial and Decision Economics, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, etc ` Strategic Organization, Co-Editor [2013-2016] ` Journal of Management, Editorial Board [2013-present] | PUBLICATIONS Felin T & Felin M (2020). Seeking rationality: $500 bills and perceptual obviousness. Handbook of Bounded Rationality.
Felin T, Gambardella A & Zenger T (2020). Value lab: A tool for entrepreneurial strategy. Management & Business Review. [ssrn] Felin T & Kauffman S (2020). The search function and evolutionary novelty. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. [html]
Felin T, Gambardella A, Stern S & Zenger T (2020). Lean startup Felin T, Felin M, Koenderink J & Krueger J (2019). On surprise-hacking. Perception. [open access pdf]  Felin T & Foss N (2019). Microfoundations for institutional theory? Research in the Sociology of Organizations.  Felin T & Lakhani K (2018). What problems will you solve with blockchain? MIT Sloan Management Review. [html]   Felin T, Koenderink J & Krueger J (2017). Rationality, perception, Devins C, Felin T, Kauffman S & Koppl R (2017). The law and big data. Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. [html]  Felin T, Lakhani K & Tushman M (2017). Firms, crowds, and innovation. Strategic Organization. [pdf] Hallberg N & Felin T (2017). Untangling infinite regress and the origins of capability. Journal of Management Inquiry. Felin T & Zenger T (2017). What sets breakthrough strategies apart. MIT Sloan Management Review. Felin T & Zenger T (2016). Strategy, problems and a theory for the firm. Organization Science.  Felin T, Kauffman S, Mastrogiorgio A & Mastrogiorgio M (2016). Factor markets, actors and affordances. Industrial & Corporate Change. [html] Felin T (2016). When strategy walks out the door. MIT Sloan Management Review. [html] Stirling W & Felin T (2016). Satisficing, preferences and social interaction: A new perspective. Theory & Decision. [html] David R, Felin T, Langley A, Rowley T, Verona G. (2016). The strategic organization of strategic management scholarship. Strategic Organization. Koppl R, Kauffman S, Felin T & Longo G (2015b). Economics for a creative world: A response to comments. Journal of Institutional Economics. Koppl R, Kauffman S, Felin T & Longo G (2015a). Economics for a creative world. Journal of Institutional Economics.
Felin T, Kauffman S, Koppl R & Longo G (2014). Economic opportunity and evolution: Beyond landscapes and bounded rationality. Strategic  Felin T & Zenger T (2014). Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice. Research Policy. [open access]  Barney J & Felin T (2013). What are microfoundations? Academy of Management Perspectives. [pdf] Argyres N, Felin T, Foss N & Zenger T (2012). Organizational economics of capability and heterogeneity. Organization Science. [html] Felin T (2012). Cosmologies of capability, markets and wisdom of crowds. Managerial & Decision Economics. [html]
Felin T & Foss N (2012). The (proper) microfoundations of routines and capabilities: a response to Winter, Pentland, Hodgson and Knudsen. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] Felin T, Zenger T & Tomsik J (2009). The knowledge economy: emerging organizational forms, missing microfoundations and key considerations for managing human capital. Human Resource Management. Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2008). Building microfoundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links. Managerial & Decision Economics. [pdf] [html] Felin T & Hesterly W (2007). The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge. Academy of Management Review. [pdf] [html] Felin T & Foss N (2006). Individuals and organizations: thoughts on a microfoundations project for strategic management and organizational analysis. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management. Felin T & Foss N (2005). Strategic organization: a field in search of micro-foundations. Strategic Organization. [pdf]
| MISCELLANEOUS working on 'the future of industrial strategy' research project with Julian Allwood and U of Cambridge Engineering (£5 million EPSRC funded) [html] Strategy: A Very Short Introduction book under contract with Oxford University Press (to be published early 2021) The fallacy of obviousness | Aeon  Aug 2019: presented at conference celebrating Stu Kauffman's work, Santa Fe Institute [html] - talk titled "Mind and Economy"  May 2019: London50 conference - debate about the value of ecosystems with Gary Dushnitsky March 2019: Utah Winter Strategy Conference [html] - "state of field" panel presentation with Jay Barney and Joanne Oxley Oct 2018: open innovation conference, UC Berkeley Jan 2019: strategy for startups and SMEs, Strategy Insight Lab project [html] - with Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Elena Novelli, Chiara Spina I collect Finnish Modern Art - here's a piece by Carl Wargh (1968) "Seashore I"  EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts (Hoover, Stanford Univ): Blindness, rationality, and  June 2018: Strategy Science conference at Wharton, UPenn [html] - panel with Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Todd Zenger and Scott Stern BBC interview related to big data, artificial intelligence and the fallacy of obviousness [html]  a few items from the past: PLOS ONE piece [html] and special issue with fantastic contributors [html]  interview with Geoff Mulgan at the Oxford Literary Festival: book Big Mind (Princeton U Press) [html]  PUBLICATIONS Felin T & Powell T (2016). Designing organizations for dynamic capabilities. California Management Review. [html]
Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2014). Microfoundations of Social Theory: A Response to Jepperson and Meyer. Sociologica. [html] Stirling W & Felin T (2013). Game theory, conditional preferences and social influence. PLoS ONE. [html]  Felin T & Knudsen T (2012). A theory of nascent entrepreneurship and organization. Managerial & Decision Economics. [pdf] [html] Felin T, Foss N, Heimeriks K & Madsen T (2012). Microfoundations of routines and capabilities: individuals, processes and structures. Journal of Management Studies. Stirling W, Giraud-Carrier C & Felin T (2012). A framework for the design and synthesis of coordinated social systems. Social Informatics.  Felin T & Foss N (2011). The endogenous origins of experience, routines and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] [html]
Felin T & Zenger T (2011). Information aggregation, matching, and radical market-hierarchy hybrids. Strategic Organization. Zenger T, Felin T & Bigelow L (2011). Theories of the firm-market boundary. Academy of Management Annals. [html] [pdf] Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2010). Causal and constitutive relations and the squaring of coleman's diagram: reply to Vromen Erkenntnis. [html] [pdf]  Felin T & Foss N (2009). Social reality, the boundaries of self-fulfilling prophecy, and economics. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] response by Ferraro, Pfeffer & Sutton. How and why theories matter: a comment on Felin and Foss [see here]; editor introduction [see here] Felin T & Foss N (2009). Organizational routines and capabilities: Historical drift and a course-correction toward microfoundations. Scandinavian Journal of Management. [html] King B, Felin T & Whetten D (2009). Comparative organizational analysis. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. [pdf] review of volume by P Foreman in Administrative Science Quarterly (2010)Felin T & Spender JC (2009). An exchange of ideas about knowledge governance: seeking first principles & microfoundations. In Knowledge Governance, edited by Foss et al. Oxford University Press. |
